X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:22:08 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: base-files: LOGNAME Message-ID: <20100531122208.GH16885@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C021FA8 DOT 4030403 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <0e02511a11473cd99d0035122f0c6dc0 DOT squirrel AT mail DOT morrison DOT mine DOT nu> <4C02AA5A DOT 4050704 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C02AA5A.4050704@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote: > On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote: > >Could we do; > > > >LOGNAME=$USERNAME > >export LOGNAME > > > >instead? > > I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX. USERNAME is the Windows username. LOGNAME should be rather equivalent to $USER. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple